American favorite

It was only a few minutes after I met Goldie when we could see Joel putting meat on the BBQ.

"Oh, he has hot dogs. I'm going to have a hot dog. I love hot dogs," said Goldie.

"Yeah, they make them a lot better these days," I said. "Now they have Louisiana hot links and a lot of other varieties. They are a lot better than the plain old hot dogs."

"Oh," said Goldie, "I even like the nasty kind."